Re: Writing by Record number

By defining the record number as the key you have limited your choices to two, 
I believe.  

One choice is to make a new field in the record and z-add the record number to 
it and making the file uniquely keyed on that number, and from then forward 
deal with the file as a keyed physical file.  

The other dismal choice would be to define the file as a demand file of 
sufficient size to hold the highest record number.



In <00fe01be17f0$f27200a0$b77587a2@usswasp>, on 11/24/98 
   at 03:25 PM, "Rich Duzenbury" <rduz@aros.net> said:

>Is it possible to control the record number assigned to a record?  

>I have to convert some records to a new format and the record numbers
>need to be preserved, regardless of whether deleted records are in the
>files.  Reorganizing the files prior to conversion is not an option.

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